Freenet

From Cship

Freenet is the oldest and most widely spread Peer-to-peer program to beat censorship, so a lot of people use it and its actually working since several years quite well. However, there is no access to the "real" Internet possible through the Freenet client. You can only view/download stuff from the 'free net'.

You install the client as a local proxy which is listening on port 8888 and can access links like 'http://localhost:8888/SSK@fjfkHAbxdwMyTMFgtZjcP2ge-AYPAgM/sites/fwhh/index.html'. It looks like a kind of normal URL, the 'localhost:8888' addresses the proxy server on port 8888 that is running on your local machine, the rest is something like an encrypted file name. It is not possible to determine who put some information into the network or who is downloading it.

The current stable release is 0.5 build 5107 from May 18, 2006. But there is also a preview release 0.7 Build #1101 r17168M from January 19, 2008.